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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of these comments are insulting. I have an engineering degree and a masters in education.  I am a math teacher because I love working with students, I love math and I have the best coworkers anyone could want.  They are intelligent experienced professionals. Many of us have degrees in our field and have switched careers because teaching is our passion. Please do not come forward with cookie cutter methods to improve education when you have never spent a  day as a classroom teacher.  There is much more to teaching high school than content knowledge.  [/quote]

So what are your ideas? Our education system is in crisis. Rather than get your feathers ruffled when people brainstorm ideas, why don't you use your personal experience with teaching to make some suggestions here of what might work. It's easy to criticize other peoples ideas. Please tell us what we need to do.[/quote]

Not the PP you are replying to, but my idea is to look at the curriculum.  Common Core made a good start, but most state's social studies and science curricular especially in the elementary years are woefully inadequate.   People always talk about changing the way teachers teach but the seldom ask, is the curriculum even worth learning?

The MD state social studies curriculum is a complete joke for most of elementary school, especially compared with what kids in European schools learn (and compared with what kids in many private schools or homeschooled kids study).[/quote]

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